Akron galleries events

FolkNite at PAA

Sunday, Jun 9 7:00p

Join us for a casual acoustic open jam with Greg Canda. We’ll have the computer and projector hooked up so we can all be playing the same music (and singing the same lyrics)...

BluesNite – Open Jam at PAA

Saturday, May 25 7:00p

Peninsula Art Academy, Peninsula

Glassblowing with Bob Pozarski

Saturday, May 25 10:00a

Peninsula Art Academy, Peninsula

One-day paperweight and beginning glassblowing classes; Saturdays from 10am-3pm, Sundays from 12-5pm. Dip molten glass from a furnace and shape it into a paperweight...

Bell Street Artwalk

Friday, May 31 5:00p

Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls

The Valley Art Center is proud to participate in hosting a multitude of artists and join its' artistic Bell Street neighbors for a community artwalk this spring! Alpaca Fiber Studio & Friends, Deb...

Peter Seward

Friday, Jun 14 12:00p

Brandt Gallery, Cleveland

In a series of landscape paintings, Seward explores our collective use of technology, set against our desire to preserve the natural environment...

Sculpture Center

Wednesday, Jun 19 7:00p

Sculpture Center, Cleveland

R Ferris seeks to eliminate the unspoken boundaries between a work of art and the viewer in order to pinpoint experiences themselves as the work of art...

Whitney Huber: Shift

Friday, Jun 14 7:00p

Sculpture Center, Cleveland

with collaborator Joan Giroux Sculpture Courtyard (in the Main Gallery in the event of rain) Shift, a two-person performance work written by Whitney Huber and performed by Huber and collaborator J...

Susan Byrnes: Mending Is Better Than Ending

Thursday, Jun 27 2:00p

Sculpture Center, Cleveland

INVITATION FROM SUSAN BYRNES Performance artist Susan Byrnes, an artist of social practice, is creating an interactive performance piece, Mending Is Better Than Ending, that includes an audio tour ...

Rebecca Cross: Like a River

Wednesday, Jun 5 10:00a

Sculpture Center, Cleveland

Performance in Sculpture Center parking lot and exhibition in Main Gallery In her work Rebecca Cross uses the shibori method, a traditional Japanese method of creating shape and color in cloth th...

Forty-Part Motet

Tuesday, May 21 10:00a

Cleveland Museum of Art (Classrooms B and C), Cleveland

1916 Building, Reid Gallery By exploring the spatial qualities of sound, few other artists have influenced the actual notion of what sculpture can be than Janet Cardiff...

Mark Schatz: UNIVERSE

Wednesday, May 22 10:00a

Sculpture Center, Cleveland

In UNIVERSE, Mark Schatz maps the world in a sprawling, double-sided landscape model that draws from architects, planners and hobbyists, as well as from obsessive, self-taught artists who have spen...

Tantra in Buddhist Art

Tuesday, May 21 10:00a

Cleveland Museum of Art (Classrooms B and C), Cleveland

Focus Gallery The second exhibition in the new Focus Gallery explores the concept and characteristics of Tantra in the Buddhist context through art from across Asia...

Renaissance Textiles

Tuesday, May 21 10:00a

Cleveland Museum of Art (Classrooms B and C), Cleveland

1916 Building, Gallery 114 This installation includes about 15 sumptuous Italian silks, velvets, and altar frontals of the 14th and 15th centuries from the museum’s world-class collection...

The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection

Tuesday, May 21 10:00a

Cleveland Museum of Art (Classrooms B and C), Cleveland

The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall Pompeii and the other ancient cities destroyed and paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ad79 are usually considered t...

Gary Blowers: Active Vibrations

Friday, Jun 14 5:30p

Sculpture Center, Cleveland

Gary Blowers work deals with how individual people interact with the society around them. When the viewer plays a role in the work it creates a unique relationship between the audience and the art...